PICTURES: Mach disaster drill at Country Meadows

TIMOTHY FORD / THE MORNING CALL

Country Meadows employee Samantha Meretus (being carried) participates as an actor in an annual Risk and Fire Safety drill. Country Meadows teams up with local fire, EMS and police departments to partake in their annual Risk and Fire Safety drill. Crews from Upper Macungie, Lower Macungie, Centronia, and Emmaus all helped with this life-like reenactment. This year, they chose to simulate a plane crash on the property of the retirement community.

Country Meadows employee Samantha Meretus (being carried) participates as an actor in an annual Risk and Fire Safety drill. Country Meadows teams up with local fire, EMS and police departments to partake in their annual Risk and Fire Safety drill. Crews from Upper Macungie, Lower Macungie, Centronia, and Emmaus all helped with this life-like reenactment. This year, they chose to simulate a plane crash on the property of the retirement community. (TIMOTHY FORD / THE MORNING CALL)

Country Meadows employee Samantha Meretus participates as an actor in an annual Risk and Fire Safety drill. Country Meadows teams up with local fire, EMS and police departments to partake in their annual Risk and Fire Safety drill. Crews from Upper Macungie, Lower Macungie, Centronia, and Emmaus all helped with this life-like reenactment. This year, they chose to simulate a plane crash on the property of the retirement community.

Country Meadows employee Samantha Meretus participates as an actor in an annual Risk and Fire Safety drill. Country Meadows teams up with local fire, EMS and police departments to partake in their annual Risk and Fire Safety drill. Crews from Upper Macungie, Lower Macungie, Centronia, and Emmaus all helped with this life-like reenactment. This year, they chose to simulate a plane crash on the property of the retirement community. (TIMOTHY FORD / THE MORNING CALL)

Country Meadows teams up with local fire, EMS and police departments to partake in their annual Risk and Fire Safety drill. Crews from Upper Macungie, Lower Macungie, Centronia, and Emmaus all helped with this life-like reenactment. This year, they chose to simulate a plane crash on the property of the retirement community.